Its applied with a fine foam rubber paint roller, the type used for stains/or clear finish.it will never set up until assembled.it anerobic and wont cure untill its in an oxegen free enviroment.can use car right after assembly

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There's a hydrocarbon test you can do at home or some radiator shops can do it. The kit is sold at a "Real" auto part store like NAPA, I doubt Auto Zone, Pep Boys or O'Reilly's would have these. You pull a little water/antifreeze from your radiator and put a few drops of the supplied chemical in it. It will tell if there's hydrocarbons in it. There should be no hydrocarbons in your radiator. I hope this helps

basically check the surfaces are flat...pull the heat exchanger off and run a metal ruler or square across them, if there out gently run a flat file over them, if not put some silicone based chemical gasket around there and should take it up, good luck :)

Why would you want to put a head gasket on one. They hardly ever go bad on a 3800 engine. Worked at a buick dealer for many years and only have seen one that was leaking but it was not original gasket. Tell me the symptoms and I will guide you through it. Super charged motor or not? Please reply

before you start taking it to bits have you checked thermostat is opening ok and that radiator is not blocked also that the cooling fans are working a chemical test or sniff test can be done to check for gases in cooling system these engines are strong not prone to head gasket problems

The stabilizer is a bad thing for some carbs. It has a chemical in it that can eat away seals and gaskets inside your carb. Grab a gasket set for it, replace those, make sure to spray the carb out, then put it all back together adn you should be ok.

The best solution? Remove the heads, have them planed to true them up and put new gasket set on. Depending on how many miles the engine has on it, it may be needful to have the heads reworked. New valves guides, the valves ground and seated. If it has a lot of miles it could be best to purchase a set of remanufactured heads. If the engine is low miles a gasket set and planing the head will probably do it. If you just have one head plane, make sure to get the proper gasket for that head. The planed head will cause that bank of cylinders to have higher compression then the other non-planed side. You will have to get a thicker gasket for that side to keep the same compression. Your machine shop can tell you how much they took off. Hope that helps.